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His home swung with actors, poets, writers.His home swung with actors, poets, writers.Have there any great poets appeared since him?We tend to know more about the lives of those who were the great poets or the great generals.Would it be a worthwhile monument to the first great avant-garde poet of the twentieth century?The aim is to fuel the nation's enthusiasm for verse and to provide a platform for poets and poetry.In her way she was an artist to rival any that could be found in this fabled city of painters, poets and song.It is as if the poet, or poetry itself, is spying on our ephemeral existence.He painted more than over 200 writers, poets and celebrities.Rich people mixed with artists, actors, poets and painters.I love poetry and poets of all kinds, and rarely leave home without a volume of verse somewhere about my person.Easy to mock, maybe - or to say that the people affected need doctors or psychiatrists rather than poetry and poets.

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British English: poet /ˈpəʊɪt/ NOUN
A poet is a person who writes poems.
He was a painter and poet.
  • American English: poet
  • Arabic: شاعِر
  • Brazilian Portuguese: poeta
  • Chinese: 诗人
  • Croatian: pjesnik
  • Czech: básník
  • Danish: digter
  • Dutch: dichter
  • European Spanish: poeta
  • Finnish: runoilija
  • French: poète
  • German: Dichter
  • Greek: ποιητής
  • Italian: poeta
  • Japanese: 詩人
  • Korean: 시인 작가
  • Norwegian: dikter
  • Polish: poeta
  • European Portuguese: poeta
  • Romanian: poet
  • Russian: поэт
  • Latin American Spanish: poeta
  • Swedish: poet
  • Thai: กวี
  • Turkish: şair
  • Ukrainian: поет
  • Vietnamese: nhà thơ

Chinese translation of 'poet'

poet

(ˈpəuɪt)

n (c)

  1. 诗(詩)人 (shīrén) (, wèi)
(noun) 
Definition
a writer of poetry
the English poet William Blake
Synonyms
bard (archaic, literary)
the epic and myth which formed the bard's repertoire
rhymer
lyricist
lyric poet
versifier
maker (archaic)
elegist

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Quotations

The poet is the priest of the invisible [Wallace Stevens – Adagia]
A poet's hope: to be,
like some valley cheese,
local, but prized elsewhere
[W.H. Auden – Shorts II]
For that fine madness still he did retain
Which rightly should possess a poet's brain
[Michael Drayton – To Henry Reynolds, of Poets and Poesy]
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal [T.S. Eliot – The Sacred Wood]The poet is always indebted to the universe, paying interest and fines on sorrow [Vladimir Mayakovsky – Conversation with an Inspector of Taxes about Poetry]All a poet can do today is warn [Wilfred Owen – Poems (preface)]Sir, I admit your general rule
That every poet is a fool;
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet
[Alexander Pope – Epigram from the French]

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